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COLUMBIA, S. C. 

To escape a trying winter health and pleasure-seekers would 
brave the dangers of a sea voyage for a few months in Southern 
France, or suffer the fatigue of a tedious trip across the continent 
for a holiday in California. Yet only a few days' journey away 
in South Carolina — at the very doorstep, as it were — Northerners 
can find a climate as temperate, a country as interesting, and local 
color as picturesque as that of any region thousands of miles 
away. Columbia, the state's capital, in the heart of the South, is as 
delightful a Winter resort as one can visit at home or abroad, and 
as accessible to Northerners as their sea-shore and mountain 
Summer haunts. 

The town lies in a land of perennial sunshine — ^beyond the 
reach of Winter rain and snow and without the tract of Winter 
storm-winds. From Fall to Spring the sun is almost unclouded, 
and the breezes that creep up from the great pine-country about 
are warm and dry, soothing and ozone-laden. Nature seems to 
have blessed the region with an Indian Summer of six months 
duration — a perfect mean between New England's penetrating 
cold and the tropical heat of Florida. 





Looking South Toward State Capitol 

The city is built on a high plateau 
with far-reaching views of plantation 
land and rolling pine forest. The 
State Capitol, one of the few buildings 
that escaped the devastating fire of 
Sherman's army, is the natural centre 
with wide business and residence ave- 
nues, flanked with majestic trees, radi- 
ating from its park. 




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Looking North From Capitol Steps 

The town has risen nobly from its 
ashes but the fire of the Rebel spirit 
still smoulders in many a Southern 
breast. They v/ould not have it die 
any more than they would fail to show 
you the scars that Sherman's shells 
left upon their State House facade, or 
the Articles of Sf'cession perpetuated 
in bronze in the entrance corridor of 
that old treasure house of Southern 
history. 



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Congaree River 

The Congaree River, a dainty stream 
that runs through the city's outskirts 
and threads its silver way as far as 
the eye can see, adds much to Colum- 
bia's charm. The stream's path is 
through woods and plantations every- 
where beautiful. 



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Congaree River 

The river is a sportsmen's paradise. 
Its waters are full of fish and along its 
banks game is plentiful. Deer roam 
through the woods in considerable 
numbers. Partridge, ducks of all 
kinds, quail and wild doves can be had 
for the fair aim of a rifle. 



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A View of the Capitol Grounds 

The relics preserved there have 
brought many a tourist to Columbia. 
The library is full of old Colonial 
and Revolutionary records, treaties 
with the Indians, and trophies without 
end. The old mace and sword, repli- 
cas of those still in use in the British 
House of Commons and of Lords, you 
can take down vourself from their case. 



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Scene on Gcrvais Street 

Gervais Street is an avenue of old 
homes. Before the sixties it was gay 
with the parties of lovely Columbia 
belles — the Prestons, the Taylors and 
the Harpers, A few of the houses 
stand as they did originally. Most of 
the fine places were destroyed in the 
fire. 



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Columbia is an odd mixture of what 
erudite Southerners would call "post 
and ante-helium" prosperity. Every 
street has monuments of life before the 
war — the dear old homes where lovely 
women reigned, queens of that unpar- 
alleled Southern hospitality. Old places 
like the governor's mansion hobnob 
with handsome modern residences and 
tell a hundred stories of that Yankee- 
Rebel war that nearly wrecked a nation. 




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Trinity Episcopal Church 

The churches of Cokmibia are all 
old-timers and full of human interest. 
There is the Baptist church that Pet- 
tigrew, the famous Unionist of Colum- 
bia, nick-named the "lunatic asylum" 
because the Secessionist Convention 
was held there. Trinity Episcopal 
Church with roses twining among the 
grave-stones in the shadow of its dull 
red walls is one of the most pictur- 
esque. 



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Residence of T. H. Fisher 

Columbia has been called a city of 
trees. All the avenues are shaded 
with at least two rows of majestic 
water oaks or "Princes of India." A 
great number of the residence streets 
are of a width that permits of two 
roadways and four rows of trees. No 
wonder the town is so beautiful ! 



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Residence of J. L. Mimnau^h 

Columbia is, too, a city of gardens — 
old-fashioned gardens, trim with vel- 
vet lawns and hedges of box. There 
is not a house in the whole town that 
has not its well-kept setting of grass 
plots and flower beds — where the jas- 
mine blows, and roses — fragile roses 
— dare to bloom late into the Winter. 




Bridge over Canal 

Almost as pretty a bit of water as 
the Congaree is the old Columbia 
Canal that joins the river with the 
navigable waters of the Broad and the 
Saluda. The falls and rapids above 
Columbia made the Congaree impas- 
sible for a considerable distance and 
the canal was built over a century ago 
to obviate this difficulty. 



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Along the Twelve-Mile Drive 

The "Twelve-Mile Drive" is one of 
the finest roads of Columbia. Its 
double row of shade trees was planted 
by General Wade Hampton, the 
hero of all Carolinians. Since the old 
General's day the drive has been 
looked upon as a "Lover's Lane" by 
the young darkies of Columbia, who 
drive out in the evenings in mule- 
carts. 





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The Library— S. C. College 

ever a campus breathed the true 



academic spirit it is that of South Car- 
olina "College," as people still call it. 
Its old elms are stately and tall, and 
throw the walks into pleasant shade. 
The buildings that line the great 
quadrangle are all of a quaint period 
long gone by. 



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President's House— S. C. College 

Columbia, besides being a State's 
capital, an industrial centre and a 
health resort, is one of the college 
towns best known throughout the 
South. Students come from all over 
the Union to be educated in the Uni- 
versity of South 'Carolina. 





The Grounds— Presbyterian College 

"Befo' de wah" it was the home of 
General Preston. In a curious way it 
was saved from the flames of '65. Sher- 
man's daughter had been educated at 
the Columbia Convent, and when the 
Mother Superior begged the General's 
protection after her buildings were 
burned he told her she might have any 
house in the town she wished. She . 
chose the Preston home. 



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Presbyterian Theological Seminary 

The Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
inary is another of the quaint old col- 
leges. The buildings are nearly as old 
as those of the University. In the 
library building is an interesting record 
room full of memorials of its "boys," 
manv of them men of the dav. 



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Darkies in a Tobacco Field 

"Milwood," a few miles out of Co- 
lumbia, is the ruin of one of the rich- 
est country-seats in the region. It was 
the estate of the well-known Hampton 
family and as far back as Revolution- 
ary times was said to be the most hos- 
pitable place in the South. Of the 
splendid old home, burned by Sher- 
man's men, only an ivy covered col- 
umn or two remain. 




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Darkies in a Tobacco Field 

Columbia is in the heart of the "cot- 
ton belt," and you can scarcely picture 
anything more interesting or pictur- 
esque than the cotton plantations. A 
"coon" in a cotton field is in his nat- 
ural environment. The Southerners 
believe that the negro was predestined 
to raise cotton because no white man 
of any nationality can stand the hard- 
ships of the industry. 





Lock on Canal 

A pleasant boating trip is through 
the Columbia Canal into the two rivers 
above — the Broad and Saluda. The 
course of the canal is through fine old 
plantations. The rivers at whose con- 
fluence the canal connects are beautiful 
little streams navigable for a long dis- 
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THE COLONIA HOTEL 

The most beautiful and comfortable resort hotel in the South. 
Is of Spanish architecture and stuccoed walls with red tile roof, 
dual towers and roomy loggias. Billiard room, writing rooms, sun 
parlor, recreation room, etc. All floors hardwood. Opens Jan. i, 
1907, and will remain open throughout year. 

C. H. Godfree, Mgr. Columbia, S. C. 




THE Seaboard Air-Line Railway is the 
shortest route to Florida, and its 
famous train, the Seaboard Florida 
Limited, the quickest. There are two 
other high class trains. 

Columbia is practically half way be- 
tween the cities of the North and the 
resorts of Florida. It is directly on the 
main line and all trains either north or 
south bound go through Columbia at con- 
venient hours. 

For infor?natio}i address ^^ Seaboard^'' representatives . 

W. E. CoNKLYN, G. E. p. A., 

I 183 Broadway, New York, 
Chas. L. Longsdorf, N. E. P. A., 

360 Washington Street, Boston, 
J. J. Puller, D. P. A., 

1433 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 
O. M. Chilton, C. P. A., 

Continental Trust Building, Baltimore, 
R. H. Stansell, D. p. a., 

1 42 I Pennsylvania Ave., Washington. 



W. A. GARRETT, ist V. P. & Gen'l Mgr. 

CHARLES B. RYAN, Cen'l Pass. Agt. 



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